Copyright (Foreign Countries) Order, 1996

• Jurisdiction: Ireland

S.I. No. 36 of 1996.

COPYRIGHT (FOREIGN COUNTRIES) ORDER, 1996

The Government, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by section 43 of the Copyright Act, 1963 (No. 10 of 1963), and section 175 of the Industrial and Commercial Property (Protection) Act, 1927 (No. 16 of 1927), as amended by section 11 of the Industrial and Commercial Property (Protection) (Amendment) Act, 1929 (No. 13 of 1929), and section 11 of the Industrial and Commercial Property (Protection) (Amendment) Act, 1957 (No. 13 of 1957), as adapted by section 2 of the Executive Powers (Consequential Provisions) Act, 1937 (No. 20 of 1937), and continued in force by Part VIII of the First Schedule to the Copyright Act, 1963 , hereby order as follows:— 1. This Order may be cited as the Copyright (Foreign Countries) Order, 1996. 2. In this Order—

"the Act of 1963" means the Copyright Act, 1963 (No. 10 of 1963) as amended by the Copyright (Amendment) Act, 1987 (No. 24 of 1987), the Dublin City University Act, 1989 (No. 15 of 1989), the University of Limerick Act, 1989 (No. 14 of 1989), the European Communities (Legal Protection of Computer Programs) Regulations, 1993 ( S.I. No. 26 of 1993 ) and the European Communities (Term of Protection of Copyright) Regulations, 1995 ( S.I. No. 158 of 1995 );

"country of the Berne Union" means a country which ratified or has acceded to and has not denounced the Convention of the International Union for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works signed at Berne on the 9th day of September, 1886, or ratified or has acceded to and has not denounced a revision of that Convention;

"country of the Universal Copyright Convention" means a country which ratified or has acceded to and has not denounced the Universal Copyright Convention signed at Geneva on the 6th day of September, 1952, or has acceded to and has not denounced a revision of that Convention;

"country of the Rome Convention" means a country which ratified or has acceded to and has not denounced the Convention for the Protection of Performers, Producers of Phonograms and Broadcasting Organisations signed at Rome on the 26th day of October, 1961, or ratified or acceded to and has not denounced a revision of that Convention;

"country of the World Trade Organisation" means a country which has ratified or has acceded to the Marrakesh Agreement Establishing the World Trade Organisation Done at Marrakesh on the 15th day of April, 1994. 3. Subject to Articles 4, 7, 8 and 9 of this Order, the Act of 1963 shall as respects acts done or omissions made after the commencement of this Order apply to:

(a) literary (including a computer program), dramatic, musical or artistic works, cinematograph films or published editions of literary, dramatic or musical works, first published (whether before or after the making of this Order) in any...